Anteon bytebieri Olmi, 2011

Olmi, Massimo & Copeland, Robert S., 2011, A catalogue of Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae of Kenya and Burundi, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), African Invertebrates 52 (1), pp. 177-177 : 181-182

Anteon bytebieri Olmi , sp. n.

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Etymology: This species is named after Dr Benny Bytebier, who directed the Taita Biodiversity Project.

Description:

Female.

Fully winged; length 3.12 mm. Head black, except mandibles testaceous; antennae testaceous; mesosoma black;gaster brown; tegulae testaceous; legs testaceous.Antennae FODYDWH; DQWHQQDO VHJPHQWV LQ WKH IROORZLQJ SURSRUWLRQV: ƚ:8:6:ƽ:4.ƽ:6:6:6:6:8. +HDG dull, strongly reticulate rugose; frontal line present; face without lateral keels; occipital FDULQD FRPSOHWH; 32/ = 7.ƽ; 2/ = 4; 22/ = 6; 23/ = 6; 7/ = ƽ; JUHDWHVW EUHDGWK RI posterior ocelli shorter than OPL (3:6). Pronotum rugose, with posterior surface shiny and almost completely smooth; posterior surface shorter than scutum (5:18). Scutum shiny, smooth, very weakly granulated. Notauli very short, reaching about 0.25 length RI VFXWXP. 6FXWHOOXP DQG PHWDQRWXP VKLQ\, VPRRWK, ZLWKRXW VFXOSWXUH. 0HVRSOHXUD SUR [LPDOO\ UHWLFXODWH UXJRVH, GLVWDOO\ VPRRWK, ZLWKRXW VFXOSWXUH. 0HWDSOHXUD UXJRVH, sculptured by many transverse keels. Propodeum with strong transverse keel between GRUVDO DQG SRVWHULRU VXUIDFH; GRUVDO VXUIDFH UHWLFXODWH UXJRVH; SRVWHULRU VXUIDFH UHWL‒ culate rugose, with two longitudinal keels and with median area sculptured by areolae smaller than those of lateral areas. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; GLVWDO SDUW RI VWLJPDO YHLQ PXFK VKRUWHU WKDQ SUR [LPDO SDUW (4:9).)RUH WDUVDO VHJPHQWV LQ IROORZLQJ SURSRUWLRQV: 8:ƻ::4:ƚƽ. 6HJPHQWV ƻ DQG RI IRUH WDUVL SURGXFHG LQWR D KRRN. 6HJPHQW 4 RI IRUH WDUVXV PXFK VKRUWHU WKDQ EDVDO SDUW RI VHJPHQW ƽ (ƽ:ƚƚ). Enlarged claw ( Fig. 3 ) with proximal prominence bearing one long bristle. Segment 5 of fore tarsus ( Fig. 3 ) with two rows of 8+9 proximal and medial lamellae; distal apex ZLWK JURXS RI 4 ODPHOODH. 7LELDO VSXUV ƚ, ƚ, ƻ.

Male. Unknown.

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Hosts: Unknown.

Comments: The female of A. bytebieri is similar to that of $. LQÀDWUL[Benoit, 1951. The main differences concern the shape of segment 5 of the fore tarsus (with many proximal and medial bristles, without lamellae or at most with one lamella, in $. LQÀDWUL[(¿J. ƻ49 LQ 2OPL ƚ984); ZLWK PDQ\ SUR [LPDO DQG PHGLDO ODPHOODH LQ A. bytebieri ( Fig. 3 )) and the sculpture of the median area of the posterior surface of the propodeum (with areolae as large as those of lateral areas, in $. LQÀDWUL[; with areolae smaller than those of lateral areas in A. bytebieri ). The new species was compared with the holotype of A. LQÀDWUL[IURP 6RXWK $IULFD, 3RUW 6W -RKQV (%01+).

Figures

Fig. 3. Chela of holotype of Anteon bytebieri Olmi, sp. n. (scale bar = 0.12 mm).